Abelian Varieties (Dover Books on Mathematics) - Softcover

Referring to the work of the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–29) in algebraic geometry, this monograph for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics requires some background in elementary qualitative algebraic geometry and the elementary theory of algebraic groups. First published in 1959 and reprinted later in the author's career without revision, it remains a basic advanced text in its field.

Serge Lang (1927–2005) graduated from the California Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton in 1951. He taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia, and at Yale from 1972 until the end of his career. His research focused on geometry and number theory, but he taught and wrote books about many areas in mathematics, becoming one of the field's most prolific authors of advanced monographs.